1.Take a Walk! 

Walking, such a simple practice, and yet, one that could have a deep influence on not only your health, but also on your wellbeing, creativity and on your overall perception of the world.

In this brilliant essay, Phd Harold Schultz combines the latest scientific research on walking and its effects on your physiology, with a careful study of how walking has been used in antic wisdoms and in religions.

Sail through this book, or rather walk through it, and visit the first Greek philosophers, go through the latest scientific findings, and journey along the great Christian pilgrimages’ roads.

Dr.Schultz’s work enlightens as never before about how walking has always been at the heart of creative thinking, healing, and a leverage for deep communal experiences.

A brilliant book that carries a powerful promise, that you can walk your way to a good life.

2. The Scandinavian Art of Living

Somewhere north of Europe, a rare breed of people seems to have it all: wealth with an egalitarian mindset, good looks as if they had just been freshly kicked out of the garden of Eden, and eco-material-built houses with warm cozy interiors.

Scandinavians really tick all the boxes, but what is it that they do that makes them them, that is, richsmart kind happy goodlooking people with an exquisitely tanned skin?

This is what this book aims to explore.

From the legends and the myths that inhabit the Scandinavian culture, to unconventional educative methods, passing by the cold plunging practice, this book offers an inspiring overview of what Scandinavians think, eat, do, love and cherish, that makes them the happiest people of the Western world.

Find out about the Scandinavian Art of Living, and use it to finally be « Happy as a Swede! »

3. Why Traumas Are a Good Thing & How To Grow From Them

Over the last few years, millions of people have flocked to a therapist’s office to heal from traumas, tell their personal stories to very attentive therapists, with, in the end, little to no impact on their actual well-being. Why Traumas Are a Good Thing & How to Grow From Them comes as a response to just that. The author, Daniel Thompson, Phd professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, followed more than a thousand patients, all dealing with minor and major traumatic experiences. If some of them were affected by their traumas in a way that made them unable to lead a « normal life », he also noticed that some of them were strikingly successful professionally, be it in sports, business, or in the artistic fields. Noticing this recurring pattern, the psychiatrist started to wonder: could their trauma be at the root of their success? That is how Daniel Thompson’s investigation began… And if his first hypothesis turned true, then why would some people be able to leverage trauma into a force for self-improvement, and some others wouldn’t be? The result of the medical doctor’s investigation is this thought-provoking book that carries an unexpected take on traumas. The author states: “contrary to the popular belief, traumas don’t have to be a negative force holding someone down. It is the way one deals with them that either makes, or breaks them.”

4.The Food Cheat Code

What if I told you that to reach the life that you’ve always wanted, you didn’t need more motivation, more discipline, or better designed goals, (though these certainly help) but simply a change of diet.

Food has so much power over how one sleeps, feels, behaves, that its overall effects on what one is are hard to even fathom. What one puts at the end of his fork could thus be the foundation for a healthy, energetic joyful life, or a cause of harm for the body that will inevitably slow one down in anything they want to achieve.

The Food Cheat Code by Dr.Tom Cruiciferous, comes in as the perfect guidebook for anyone who wants to change their life by first changing what’s on their plate.

This book not only teaches what the right foods to eat are, or how to cook them properly, but also teaches what to combine them with to make it easy for the body to digest them. Plus, it gives plenty of yummy recipes that’ll make you say that healthy food is tasty food.

So, are you ready for a change? With the Food Cheat Code, striding towards the life that you want becomes… a piece of cake.

5. The Hero in Me

Jamar Brown was, as he puts it himself, « a severely messed up kid ». Going from foster home to foster home after being abandoned in his early years, suffering child abuse by the hand of many of his caretakers, caught up in gang related rivalries, he had by his twenties, lived a life only of violence, that had made him, with no surprise, a very violent young man. Resistant to anyone that could have helped find his way, teachers, social workers, to the point that he had gone « rogue to society, rogue to anyone ». At 22, he avoided prison by a thread, after multiple petty crimes, only thanks to a cop’s benevolence. At 24, you could see him walk aimlessly in the streets of Chicago, with no job, no home, or no one to turn to for help, living off food picked up in back-alley restaurant bins.

One night, after walking for an absurd amount of time, he had « the strangest epiphany », that gave him the realization he had unknowingly been waiting for. Following that episode, he writes: « My situation had not changed one bit, but after that night, I felt and was a changed man. I had found a hero in me. »

Fifteen years Later, Jamar Brown is a serial entrepreneur, head and founder of multiple multi-million dollar companies, double finisher of the Iron Man of Steel, and a beloved philanthropist that helped thousands of young men getting off the streets of Chicago. A real modern-day rags-to-riches tale. Find out more about his inspiring journey through this powerful memoir that proves that really anyone, no matter how dire life gets, can rewrite their story, and open up new worlds.

The Herald Tribute « A Christ-like comeback story »

6.The Monk Mode Debunked & How to Actually Do It

A new phenomenon has taken place among the young men of the Western World: Monk Mode. A trend based on a will from young men to mimic a monk’s seeming renunciation of social life and easy pleasures, to self-isolate in one’s room for a defined period of time, not to honor God or self-reflect, but to develop skills and start an online business, in the hope that this endeavor will result in a never-ending financial freedom.

The British psychologist William Willoughby and the Theologist Benedict Montgomerry, both emeritus professors at Oxford University, joined their quills to debunk the Monk Mode trend. The two authors first remind that « Monks live the most communal life there is: working, praying, singing, and even making and drinking beer together » and that « making it on your own, without resorting to collaboration » is a modern-day fallacy that will not only turn out to be financially inefficient, but will also cause a dramatic human impoverishment for anyone who lives by it ». The book combs through many of today’s young men’s views on an array of topics, ranging from physical exercise and work, to dating and marriage, and gives a historical perspective on them that is both enlightening and necessary.

The two professors, in touch with this generation through their students, and used to creating innovative groups with them, call and give guidelines for a new « Monk Mode », closer to how monks actually live and operate, and that could, in their words, : « lead to the creation of useful profitable businesses and spur the human interaction and growth young men and young women so direly crave for ».

The first sentence of the book? «If a good story can start with: « I left behind family and friends to find something greater », it can never end with: « In the end, I just figured it out on my own ».

7. The 7 traits of the Leader by Socrates

Socrates, the first philosopher, was very ambitious for mankind, and especially for those that are in command. The Greek Philosopher thought a man that aimed to be a state leader was to have seven traits that would make him suited for the duties he would face. Seven traits that, taken individually, can easily be found, but found simultaneously in one person is so rare, that it inevitably makes that person stand out from the crowd, and makes him or her a natural leader.

Phd Matthew Aircules, head of History department at Cambridge University, takes the reader through every of the seven traits, articulating the philosopher’s thinking with key episodes of Athens’ antic history with ease and wit, and detailing Socrates’ ideas to breed these qualities in each of us. A startling book, that will make you say that the question: « Who should be in charge and how should future leaders be educated? » is not new nor solved. A true must-read for anyone that is, or aims to be, a leader.

8.Pay the Bill !

John O’Leary was a 24 years old junior at Sachs&Gonshon, working as a first-year analyst, and hoping to « make it » in the Big Apple. New to the city, working in a demanding firm, surrounded by competitive peers that were « wicked smart » and had more connections than him, John O’Leary couldn’t quite figure out how he, out of all of them, would be among those that would climb the ladder and reach the top positions at Sachs&Gonshon.

One day, on a one-to-one lunch with his direct superior, he offered to pay the bill without really thinking about it. During the following days, he noticed a change in his superior’s attitude towards him, giving him more feedback on his work and asking for more of his ideas. John then decided to have this « gesture » with every one that he’d have a one-to-one lunch with, be they a peer, a superior or even a friend. Soon enough, he found out that by simply paying the bill he could not only change his career, but also his life.

This book tells his story, and how it to could be yours too.

9.The Self-Help in the Bible

What if the Bible were not really a book about dogmas, or about age-old stories that are not relevant in today’s world, but a timeless book on how to live a good life?

Life lessons, guidance, techniques on how to find out what you want out of life, on how to get it, and on how to overcome the challenges you will inevitably face, are all in there, in the Bible.

Sometimes these foundational lessons stand in plain sight, sometimes less so.

That is just precisely why The Self-Help in the Bible was written, with the aspiration to offer to a wider audience a clearer vision on what the Bible holds for us to live better and happier lives.

Whether you’re already familiar with the Bible’s teachings, or someone who never dared to put their hand on the book, you will undoubtedly find in here timeless lessons and ways for a well-lived life.

10.The Last Self-Help Book You Will Read

Do it.

(“Do it” written on the first page, then three hundred blank pages follow)